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gonorrhœa|gɒnəˈriːə|
Also 6 gomoria, gomory, gonorrhey, 7 gonor, gonorrhea.
[med.L. gonorrhœa, ad. Gr. γονόῤῥοια, f. γόνος seed + ῥοία flux; so called because it was supposed to be a discharge of semen.
With the forms gomoria, gomory, cf. OF. gomorree (14th c.), It. gomorrea; it is doubtful whether this spelling suggested or was suggested by the etym. given in quot. 1547.]
An inflammatory discharge of mucus from the membrane of the urethra or vagina.
1547[see b]. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 67 The vattir lille, quhilk is ane remeid contrar gomoria. 1597Gerarde Herbal. i. xxxv. §8. 50 The Gonorrhey or running of the raines. 1631Massinger Emperor East iv. iii. The gonorrhea, or if you will hear it In a plainer phrase, the pox. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 29 It's prescrib'd..in a Gonorrhœa. 1794–6E. Darwin Zoon. (1801) I. 425 In the urethra it has the name of gonorrhœa. 1884M. Mackenzie Dis. Throat & Nose II. 294 The inflammation results..in some still rarer instances from gonorrhœa.
fig.1598E. Guilpin Skial. (1878) 31 Filthing chaste eares with theyr pens Gonorrhey.
†b. attrib., in gonorrhœa passion.
1547Boorde Brev. Health clxvi. (1557) 59 b, The 166 Chapitre doth shewe of a Gomory passion..[Gomerra passio, it is named so because Gomer and Sodome dyd synke for such lyke matter]. 1579Langham Gard. Health (1633) 406 [For] Gonor passion, anoynt thy yard and clothes with Camphire.
Hence gonoˈrrhœal, -ˈeal, † gonoˈrrhœan adjs., of, pertaining to, or affected with gonorrhœa.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 39 A plaister against the Gonorrhœan passion. 1611Cotgr., Pisse-chaude, a burnt P. also, the Venerian flux; the Gonorrhean or contagious, running. 1807Med. Jrnl. XVII. 573 On the identity of gonorrhœal and chancrous virus. 1860Sir H. Thompson Dis. Prostate (1868) 51 Acute inflammation of the urethra of any kind, but especially the gonorrheal. |